Articles on Hunger
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Hunger in
America and Pittsburgh Area
Brief article compares number
of hunger persons in different population categories such as gender and
age at the national level, in Southwestern Pennsylvania,
and in Allegheny County
Federal Nutrition
Program
A page reports numbers of participants
in various federal nutrition programs
Consequence
of Hunger and Food insecurity for Children
Center on Hunger and Poverty at
Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University
presents research on the consequences of hunger and
food insecurity for children in the U.S. Research demonstrates
that youngsters from food insecure and hungry homes have poorer
overall health status. This could result in missing school as well as emotional and behavioral problems
Hunger in Children
in the United States: Potential Behavioral and Emotional Correlates
The article illustrates results
from a series of surveys from nine states and Washington DC by the Community
Childhood Hunger Identification Project. The study indicates
that children from families that report multiple experiences of
food insufficiency and hunger are more likely to show behavioral,
emotional, and academic problems on a standardized measure of psychosocial
dysfunction than children from the same low-income communities
whose families do not report experiences with hunger.
State-by-State
Rates of Household Hunger and Food Insecurity
Report of state-by-state
hunger and food insecurity
data collected by the Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of
Agriculture
Food
Hardships & Child Behavior Problems among Low-Income Children
Using data from two waves
of a panel study of families who currently or recently received
cash welfare benefits, this report tests hypotheses about the relationship
between food hardships and behavior problems among two different
age groups (458 children ages 3-5-and 747 children ages 6-12).
Results show that food hardships are positively associated with
externalizing behavior problems for older children, even after
controlling for potential mediators such as parental stress, warmth,
and depression. Food hardships are positively associated with
internalizing behavior problems for older children, and with both
externalizing and internalizing behavior problems for younger
children, but these effects are mediated by parental characteristics.
The implications of these findings for child and family interventions
and food assistance programs are discussed.
Links
Congressional
Hunger Center
Institute for Research
on Poverty
Yahoo!
Hunger Directory
FRAC-Hunger
in the U.S.
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